Word: oswald
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...Robin Hemley, in his book Invented Eden, asks if someone did just that. In 1986, a Swiss reporter named Oswald Iten returned to the rain forest and found the Tasaday wearing Levi's jeans and T shirts. They said that they were local farmers who had been coerced previously into playing cavemen. A few weeks later, a team from Der Stern arrived, led by the Tasaday's original discoverer, and found them once again wearing leaves. That, supposedly, proved they were fake. Comparisons were drawn with Piltdown Man, the great paleoanthropological hoax of the early 20th century...
...coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother and sister have demanded that Dignitas be shut down. British M.P.s have called for an investigation. "It's a terrible signal, for patients and doctors, and for Switzerland," says Oswald Oelz, chief of internal medicine at Triemli Hospital in Zurich. Minelli scoffs at the outcry. "All this is bullshit," he says. "The bottom line is, we should all have the freedom to end our own lives if we are convinced our suffering is unbearable to us." Minelli declined to comment...
...which the code might be especially easy to find. By then, scientists had strong evidence that Schrodinger's genetic code was carried by DNA, thanks to a series of brilliant experiments on pneumococcal bacteria, first by Fred Griffith of the British Health Ministry and later by Oswald Avery at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City...
...past September, after the group's share price had plunged more than 50% during the year, he was forced out. Into the void stepped two new co-CEOs who formally take over next year: Mack, a former president of Morgan Stanley who arrived at CSFB in 2001, and German Oswald Grübel, a three-decade Credit Suisse veteran. Even in placid times, a two-headed creature in the CEO's suite can be a problem. But Mack and Grübel were parachuted into a storm. They can blame prior management, and harsh markets. But some of Credit Suisse...
...links with the Greek government and by weight of her formidable personality steamrolled the opposition and made contractors meet deadlines. In recent weeks, a stream of I.O.C. officials has visited Athens and issued complimentary statements. "A lot of progress has been made, and things are moving quickly," says Denis Oswald, chairman of the I.O.C. Coordinating Commission. "I am confident that in the end we'll be ready on time." Still, I.O.C. officials - many of whom are, after all, punctual Swiss - remain nervous. They fret that any further delay, no matter how slight, will be disastrous. Greek officials smile and shrug...